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From: nils@guru.stgt.sub.org (Cornelis van der Laan)
Subject: Re: Second disk...
In-Reply-To: alanp@monoceros.EECS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 13 May 1994 03:06:54 GMT
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In article <2quqse$6hm@agate.berkeley.edu> alanp@monoceros.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Pearson) writes:
> You said you were able to newfs the drive... did you newfs /dev/rwd1c?
> And this worked??? I don't think this should be allowed to work since
> the c partition is not type 4.2BSD. newfs is wrong in doing that if that
> is what happened.
On a SUN filesystem, rwd1c is really just an alias for the whole disk
and if you newfs it, you newfs whatever happens to be at the beginning
of your disk. If there's, say, a rwd1a with a size of 20MB, you would
newfs that. You also can mount rwd1c and, in fact, mount rwd1a.
Nils
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